{"id":19,"date":"2020-03-28T04:57:48","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T04:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/?p=19"},"modified":"2020-03-28T04:57:48","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T04:57:48","slug":"tuesday-march-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/2020\/03\/28\/tuesday-march-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, March 17"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I forgot it was St. Patrick\u2019s Day, but the toddler and I wore green all the same. The morning felt normal due to a series of meetings. After Dot\u2019s nap, however, we went back to our new home-away-from-home: the gravel parking lot.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the past few days, we\u2019ve stuck to exploring the parking lot, but today we wandered around Nat Bailey stadium and into Riley park. There\u2019s still such a stark contrast between the stress of the news and this quiet Spring afternoon. Little flowers springing up, children playing, even a Little League baseball team practicing (why is a baseball team practicing when school got cancelled?) All the cherry blossoms are starting to bloom.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The toddler used a stick as a microphone, talked to a bird (\u201cHI BIRDIE! WHERE YOU GOING? WHERE ARE YOU BIRDIE?\u201d), and greeted all the plants in the community garden. Several times, we accidentally ruined the take of a car salesman filming a promotional video for a new car. It was so bizarre to be worried about mass death, pandemic, how to pay rent, etc, and here\u2019s this dude in a suit talking about the parking assist feature on some new car. No one\u2019s buying new cars in the middle of a pandemic, Norman! What about you stay at home and put on some sweatpants with the rest of us?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Towards the end of our stay, Dot noticed the playground. Kids aren\u2019t allowed on playgrounds right now, and she didn\u2019t understand why she couldn\u2019t go on the swing. As I carried her away, she screamed, \u201cA swing! Go on a swing! Mommy it\u2019s a swing!\u201d How long will it be until my daughter gets to go on a swing?<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She calmed down by the time we returned to our gravel parking lot, and I found her crouching down in the dirt, humming to herself.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat are you doing?\u201d I asked her.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMaking medicine,\u201d she said.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/lh6.googleusercontent.com\/JEFlJk-q7l-11hEJZXqIzlWT3CyZirv2f48zPDbcJXmcobg9gQN4f4alzy0Cbbsfbf94-qnFr-yCYPKNoDBVT-J9EFkt1txjXdnDM_RWgXcruNLiGOLjVpCRS1JlW73HXCC2ypv-\" alt=\"A toddler in a green sweatshirt has a traffic cone on her head. She thinks it's a &quot;very silly hat.&quot;\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot it was St. Patrick\u2019s Day, but the toddler and I wore green all the same. The morning felt normal due to a series of meetings. After Dot\u2019s nap, however, we went back to our new home-away-from-home: the gravel parking lot. For the past few days, we\u2019ve stuck to exploring the parking lot, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}